[Peace-discuss] Why Obama has to do that...

[C. G. Estabrook]

Look, gang, let's get one argument out of the way up front.  As soon as The One 
is elected President, there are going to be a lot of self-styled activists after 
him NOT to do the things that he's promised to do -- like killing people in 
Afghanistan and Pakistan, continuing the occupation of Iraq, delivering money to 
Wall Street, and paying off insurance companies for a health program that won't 
even cover everybody (while leaving most people subject to their employers in 
order to get it).  The crazy leftist filmmaker Michael Moore (while not of 
course really criticizing The One) actually said that he hoped Obama would break 
his campaign promises!

Now we've gotta understand why Obama can't do that.  First of all, it would be 
dishonest.  He's campaigned all along as the anti-war candidate who would expand 
the war and the military and kill more people in the Middle East -- including 
places where the Bush administration is just taking baby-steps in killing, like 
Pakistan.  He's the candidate of "ordinary people" who lobbied for the Wall 
Street bailout while explicitly excluding help to people losing their homes. 
And he's the advocate for health care who has a plan that will provide less 
coverage than the plan that Republican Mitt Romney put in place when he was 
governor of Massachusetts.  Obama's got to pay off (so to speak) on these promises.

But the second reason is even more important.  Think about what the Republicans 
are going to do in four years.  They're going to nominate someone for President 
who will be even WORSE than John McCain -- someone like Sarah Palin, who's 
disgusting because she doesn't even have the right background (the progressives 
say "class") to be a government official. (Do you know she barely graduated from 
any college at all?!)  Think about how terrible it would be if someone like THAT 
became president.

So, you see, of course Obama doesn't want to do that killing and looting that 
his campaign promises commit him to, but once he gets into office, he's gotta do 
that -- TO GET RE-ELECTED!

--CGE

PS--And please don't bother me with any more talk about how three-quarters of 
the population want the Mideast war to end, don't want the banks to be paid off, 
and do want real healthcare for everybody without paying more to insurance 
companies.  Those are NOT the people Obama's working for.  They're just the 
people he promised that he could bring around to the interests of those whom he 
is working for.  And with John McCain's help, he's done it -- a little bit, for 
the moment...

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